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Demote

To reduce to a lower grade or rank as in the military ones employment or in school to assign to a lower position...


Demotic

Of or pertaining to the people popular common...


Demotics

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people sociology in its broadest sense in library cataloguing...


Enchorial

Belonging to or used in a country native domestic popular common said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt in distinction from the hieroglyphics See Demotic...


Promotion

Promotion, as understood in ordinary parlance and also as a term frequently used in cases involving service laws means that a person already holding a position would have a promotion if he is appointed to another post which satisfies either of the two conditions namely that the new post is in a higher category of the same service or that the new post carries higher grade in the same service or class, Dr. Meera Massey v. Dr. S.R. Mehrotra, (1998) 3 SCC 88.Means advancement or preferment in honour, dignity, rank or grade. Promotion thus not only covers advancement to higher position or rank but also implies advancement to a higher grade, State of Rajasthan v. Fateh Chand Soni, (1996) 1 SCC 562: 1996 SCC (L&S) 340.Promotion as understood under the service law jurisprudence means advancement in rank, grade or both. Promotion is always a step towards advancement to a higher position, grade or honour. Opting to come to a lower pay scale or to a lower post cannot be considered a promotion, it...


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